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Guns, Germs, and Steel

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In his book Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond makes a compelling case for why world history turned out to be what it is. Many of us may have speculated about the question of why the native Americans did not board big ships to invade Europe. Why did it instead happen the other way around?

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Chevreux, L., Plaizier, W., Schuh, C., Brown, W., Triplat, A. (2014). Guns, Germs, and Steel. In: Corporate Plasticity. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6748-5_23

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